Re: [WiX-users] Problem detecting different version already installed...

2009-12-17 Thread Jason T.
The upgrade code is the same. You know, for some odd reason I was just going to try a 3 field version instead of 4 and then you mentioned this. My versions are like 1.0.0.1 and 1.0.0.2... I just figured if it was smart enough to know that something had changed (because it wasn't asking me for rep

Re: [WiX-users] Problem detecting different version already installed...

2009-12-17 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Is the upgrade code set correctly? Generally the upgrade code should be the static over the lifetime of your product, it's the one thing that doesn't change between versions, builds, etc. Also note that Windows Installer only recognizes the first three fields of a version number for MSI packages,

Re: [WiX-users] Problem detecting different version already installed...

2009-12-17 Thread Jason T.
Thanks for the response. I had not tried a custom action, but I did just now. Same problem, doesn't do anything. When I go through the logs the NEWERVERSIONDETECTED and OLDERVERSIONDETECTED properties are not getting set. Therefore the conditions are false and the custom action never runs. I

Re: [WiX-users] Problem detecting different version already installed...

2009-12-17 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Have you tried using a custom action, instead of a launch condition to block install? e.g. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Jason T. wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to detect when a different version of my package has > al

[WiX-users] Problem detecting different version already installed...

2009-12-17 Thread Jason T.
Hello, I'm trying to detect when a different version of my package has already been installed so that I can abort the installation. I'm not looking to do the "major upgrade", I just want to abort if either an older or a newer version is found (if the version is the same the repair/remove logic al